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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2020.Lebanon may lift Ghosn's travel ban if files not received within 40 days
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Disillusioned
Awesome! I'm very happy to see pressure being put on the Japanese prosecutors to play ball. They have to expose the evidence against him due to the Interpol order. They are being caught out at their own game.
kurisupisu
Lebanon is obviously on Mr Ghosn’s side here.
40 days won’t be possible for the Japanese to manage and Mr Ghosn will be free!
Aly Rustom
Hear! Hear!
Aly Rustom
Exclusive: Carlos Ghosn goes one-on-one with Maria Bartiromo after fleeing Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcbBvRirX3g
Christopher Glen
Can’t see the prosecutors making the deadline.
tinawatanabe
Can Lebanon be trusted to properly handle files from Japan?
u_s__reamer
Can Lebanon be trusted to properly handle files from Japan?
Who on earth can ever be trusted?
There’s no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
quoth the man from Stratford, and as far as justice is concerned, the Japanese authorities ought to ponder the wisdom and warning of the Bard:
We still have judgement here, that we but teach
Bloody instructions which, being taught, return
To plague th’ inventor. This even-handed justice
Commends th’ ingredients of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips.
onsenandbeer2013
Can the Japanese gov't be trusted to actually send legit files to Lebanon in the first place?
B. Jay
If they don't send the files then they have to refund his bail money and consider the case closed.
Open Minded
If they had bulletproof or at least tangible evidences the trial would have already started or a fix date in the near future would have been set.
They are not going to send anything I bet.
wanderlust
Japan has some of the quickest and most efficient photocopiers in the world, there should be no problem for them to provide the files in 4 days, much less than 40 days!
sakurasuki
Is not just providing necessary documents but which one they willing to provide since not all evidence will be sided in favor with prosecution. So far there is still no obligation for a prosecuting attorney to disclose exculpatory evidence, that's why Ghosn doesn't want to go on trial in Japan.
http://hrn.or.jp/eng/news/2008/02/07/2008-ohchr-japan-hr-summary/
Zaphod
After working on this for almost 2 years, they should have plenty of documents to send right now. Great move by the Lebanese justice minister.
Zaphod
tinawatanabe:
Can Japan be trusted to properly handle files from Nissan? Please tell us.
Ascissor
They better set the fax machines to warp speed.
gogogo
Hopefully another country or at lease court can review the documents and claim "there is no evidence here"
quercetum
Can Japan be trusted to handle a case they’re bent on extracting a confession?
Mayunia82
@Aly Rustom Good interview.
lostrune2
How many meetings and committees will it take Japan to send the files in 40 days
HJSLLS
I’m glad to see that Lebanon is bringing some sense of judicial normalcy to this situation. So far Lebanon has applied reasonable limits on both parties in order to re-establish fairness.
AlexBecu
We need to remember Lebanon
Remeber what actions they took and how they give refugee to a criminal.
This country is no friend to Japan. Any further investments, financial help, should be reconsider to more friendly nations towards Japan.
Tawkeeo
@wanderlust
I wonder who started this hideous and cringey joke of Japan and fax machines or photocopiers.
Numan
LOL! Now Japan has to "put up or shut up!" Pathetic incompetent prosecutors!
Good point! In Japan, prosecutors are not obligated to share evidence with the defense, so prosecution has access to all the resources of the government including the police investigation and the defense does not.
The defense has to beg or hire professionals with connections to the police to gather evidence.
It is rigged from the beginning to favor the prosecution!
Evan's Dando
There's no way they will do this. Great to finally see an insular and corrupt system flounder as a result of their own inequities.